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Homeschooling is more than just education at home. Homeschool parents, children, tutors, and anyone interested in learning online, a structured home classroom or unstructured unschooling will find A2Z Home's Cool an "cool" home school blog.

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Amateurs

South Montgomery Country Homeschool Robotics
A group of Christ-centered, home-educated students. The purpose of the organization is to glorify God and enjoy Him through teaching and training students in the engineering design process.

Competitions

BotBall
The robot competition that engages students in learning science, technology, engineering, and math.

First Lego League
Teams use LEGO bricks, sensors, motors and gears to construct and program a fully autonomous robot capable of completing different missions while maneuvering around the 4 foot-by-8 foot FLL Playing Field. For 9-14 year olds.

Driverless Cars

Ann Zeise in Google’s Driverless Car

How Driverless Cars Will Work
Automakers are developing complex systems that allow cars to drive themselves. They’re also furthering existing technologies such as self-parking and pre-safe systems. You may even be surprised to find out your old clunker already sports some driverless technologies.

Homeschool FLL Teams

BRAINz FLL Robotics Team
We’re a group of five homeschoolers in Delaware who hope to make a difference in some people’s lives by helping them improve their memory. Our team name, BRAINz, stands for “Boosting Remembrances And Increasing Neuronz.”

FIRST Robotics Competition
Open regional event registration starts in November each year! An annual design competition that brings professionals and young people together in teams to solve an engineering design problem in an intense and competitive way.

Robot Combat
Whether you are building a robot for combat or just to watch one move around, this is your site. Built inexpensively with recycled materials for the most part, by an amateur tinkerer.

Robot Competitions
This listing contains brief summaries of known robot competitions around the world, answering the frequently asked questions; Where and when can I find a robot competition? Submission of new contest information is encouraged.

Robots, Parts & Accessories

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
Drones are within a family’s budget now… without the camera. With a camera, you decide. Too inexpensive, the motors burn out fast. These are the best sellers on Amazon.com.

Professionals

Bomb Squad
Futuristic robots are used to go into dangerous situations where people shouldn’t be sent. Site has some movies of robots and a game. From NOVA.

Toys

Virtual Robots

Classroom Robotics
ROBO is a new and very simple educational programming language that will familiarize you with the basics of computer science. You will also be introduced into popular programming techniques, and you will gain an insight into areas such as robotics and artificial intelligence. These skills will be gained by creating programs for a robot.

Train Computational Thinking at home – RoboMind Academy
The online curriculum contains self-contained courses with automatic validation and hints, enabling you to train computational thinking at home. A virtual mentor checks solutions and gives hints to help you on your way when a solution is not quite right. Because all solutions are checked and because you can only progress after solving a challenge correctly this allows us to reward you with validated Computational Thinking diplomas for courses successfully completed.

Robot Virtual World
No Robot, No Problem! Robot Virtual Worlds is a high-end simulation environment that enables students, without robots, to learn programming. iPad app available.

Virtual Robotics Lab
Follow your advisor, Mr. Roboto through the robotics lab and learn about a virtual robot named Iris. In this activity you will study, build and interact with Iris and find out how she works. This is a big activity with a lot of different parts so take your time and enjoy!

Virtual Robotics Toolkit
Never again disassemble, or lose pieces to something you’ve worked hard on. With the toolkit, you can store your creations as files you can return to as many times as you like.

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A2Z Homeschooling

A to Z Home's Cool, since 1997, has been the premiere destination site for those researching homeschooling, those who have decided to homeschool and are now looking for new homeschool groups and friends, as well as for families looking for free and low-cost educational materials for their children, homeschooled or not. Also known fondly as "A2Z Homeschool" we have been expanding into social networking and mobile sites. We are adding complete homeschool resources into our site for those who wish to pick and choose their homeschool curriculum freely. We are a religion-neutral homeschool site. We help you understand all the options available in the world of homeschooling.